[ca. 1979]. First edition, first printing. Handmade Custom Binding by California Bookbinding. Brown leather, tan sail cloth, title gilt. Measuring 13" x 15" Signed and dated by the photographer, Willie Gibson. Limited to 20 copies, this photo album, purchased directly from the photographer, contains over 70 unpublished photos of Neil.....
London: Methuen & Co., 1908. First edition, first printing. Publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth, fore- and lower edges untrimmed, top edge trimmed and gilt. This is the first appearance of one of the most important imaginative texts of the 20th century. Kenneth Graham's beautifully bucolic bedtime-story-turned-book rests in the influential background.....
New Directions, 1944. First edition, first printing. Tan paper boards, stamped in red. Merton wrote "Thirty Poems," his first published work three years after joining the Trappist Monastery of Gethesemani. Primarily and unsurprisingly comprising many of the Christian themes that would go on and define Merton's broader work, "Thirty Poems".....